Paintings Within Paintings
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A collection of paintings, featuring paintings.
Allegory of Sight and Smell, Jan Brueghel, c. 1595
Modern Rome, Giovanni Paolo Panini, 1757
Art Room, Frans Francken II, 1636
Gallery of the Louvre, Samuel F. B. Morse, 1831–1833
The Picture Gallery in the Old Museum, Enrico Meneghelli, 1879
Self Portrait, Gerard Dou, c. 1650
Gersaint’s Shopsign, Jean-Antoine Watteau, 1720
The Tribuna of the Uffizi, Johann Zoffany, 1772-78
The Gallery of Cornelis van der Geest, Willem van Haecht, 1628
Archduke Leopold Wilhelm in his Gallery in Brussels, David Teniers the Younger, c.1651
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